The first generation of Muslim immigrants in Germany is aging and in need of care. To try to answer this new emergency in Berlin just opened the International Hospital of Kreuzberg, reserved only for patients with dementia who have Turkish or Arab origins. Specific feature of this structure is to use health care for 80% with a Muslim background. Able, better than anyone else to manage the cultural and religious needs of elderly foreigners living Alzheimer’s patients a return to the ancient origins of their childhood. While it retains the rituals and habits such as, for example, the religious of Ramadan. Be emphasized also that respect for the modesty of the problems of patients of Koranic faith their care is entrusted exclusively to the female staff. An initiative that has met a vast appreciation in many immigrant families by allowing them to find a solution to their loved ones who are not self-sufficient but reluctant to commit themselves to being taken care of by the traditional public hospitals.
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